Statoil has been given the green-light to start putting in the remaining essential infrastructure for its Gina Krog facility in the North Sea.
Safety watchdog the PSA granted partial consent to put the accommodation quarters, cranes, pipelines and other pre-production facilities in place back in June.
The Norwegian operator has now been given permission to put into service the facility’s production plant and associated pipeline system.
This includes the gas export pipeline between Gina Krog and Sleipner A, the oil export pipeline between the Gina Krog facility and the Gina Krog FSO storage unit, and the gas import pipeline from Zeepipe IIA to Gina Krog.
The consent also includes an installation for the future reception of power from onshore.
An application from Statoil to deploy the Gina Krog FSO facility is currently being processed by the PSA.
Gina Krog is an oil and gas field, about 120 kilometer west of Stavanger and 30 kilometer north west of Sleipner A.
The field has been developed with a processing and accommodation facility on a steel jacket, and a vessel for oil storage.
The gas will be transported by pipeline via Sleipner. The wells will be drilled from a jack-up facility.
Production at Gina Krog is expected to start this month.